{"id":339233,"date":"2026-05-30T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:38:09","slug":"california-transplants-gondola-plans-carta-vs-lookout-and-more-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339233\/","title":{"rendered":"California transplants, gondola plans, CARTA vs. Lookout and more Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All you people moving to Tennessee from California, we don&#8217;t want your California ways and thinking. Not one little bit. Please acclimate to our state.<\/p>\n<p>Show me\u00a0a fervently religious Democrat? (Rants, 5\/24) Good grief. You don&#8217;t see them at the cult you are involved with. We don&#8217;t do hate church.<\/p>\n<p>Our city does little to celebrate July 4 to bring in visitors. Is there a big celebration planned for the USA&#8217;s 250th birthday?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t\u00a0realize how thin the air must be on Lookout Mountain. Wanting to become a &#8220;sundown town&#8221; again, be careful.<\/p>\n<p>Rock City\u00a0[is] 30 years older than Lookout Mountain, Georgia. The people who are mad ruined the mountain building homes on bluff, obscuring view. Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gondola will add to &#8216;nonresidents&#8217; wandering our streets.&#8221; So Lookout is off limits to people who paid to build roads up the mountain? Rich people stink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/may\/26\/rock-city-can-build-gondola-without-lookout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(IN THE NEWS: Rock City can build gondola without Lookout Mountain if necessary, CEO says)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eighteen long months to repair Walnut Street Bridge, 18 long months to rebuild riverfront, &#8220;economic demise&#8221; of the Incline. What&#8217;s next? Remove fish from the aquarium?<\/p>\n<p>Shoe&#8217;s on\u00a0the other foot. Lookout Mountain is giving CARTA the boot.<\/p>\n<p>Lookout Mountaineers, let&#8217;s make Ochs and Scenic Highway toll roads with limited hours to cover CARTA&#8217;s lost revenue with your severe new rules!<\/p>\n<p>Booting people for late parking fines. What about late or no child support, restitution, income tax, food stamp fraud, illegals? Boot them all.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier effect. Incubator endeavoring to birth new businesses in middle of North Shore, while actual establishments rapidly failing and closing on same ruined street.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on the CTFP for the &#8220;hit piece&#8221; on Officer Shackleford (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/may\/23\/caught-at-the-border-one-georgia-trooper-made-78\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5\/24<\/a>) for doing her job. Statistics are one thing, reckless journalism is another.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, let&#8217;s put somebody in charge of the $1 billion county budget who can&#8217;t even make his RV payments.<\/p>\n<p>CTFP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/may\/20\/hamilton-county-mayoral-candidate-sued-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Herndon\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/may\/20\/hamilton-county-mayoral-candidate-sued-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">article<\/a> (5\/21) is basically a working man who mourned his son versus nepo baby who thinks he&#8217;s got it made.<\/p>\n<p>After reading\u00a0facts in CTFP, it is no wonder &#8220;conservatives&#8221; are upset reading the paper. The GOP has failed us in every way \u2014 nothing conservative about them.<\/p>\n<p>CVS is suing\u00a0us because we have laws against monopolies. I will not spend a penny in a CVS. Monopolies are bad.<\/p>\n<p>Landlubbers. Mountain City Club should have considered the fact that the second happiest day in your life is the day you buy a boat.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Todd\u00a0wrote a commentary (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2026\/may\/25\/free-press-opinion-democrats-redistricting-antics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Press, 5\/26<\/a>) bragging about violating the Tennessee Constitution. He is proud of violating his oath for his bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the Rick Jackson and Burt Jones political commercials, I have to wonder who would vote for either of them.<\/p>\n<p>Name one person, just one, who is not able to vote due to any lying spoof: gerrymandering, voter ID, etc. Show me one legitimate citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chuck\u00a0Fleischmann offers sound bites in opportune times but refuses town halls and won&#8217;t meet to talk with us or answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chuck The Schmuck&#8221; endorsed the slush fund \u2014 theft of our tax money.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t the\u00a0developer who built those homes on Raccoon Mountain responsible for the infrastructure for water?<\/p>\n<p>The city\u00a0raised our taxes twice to now give millions for Raccoon Mountain water lines to people who bought and built knowing there was no water. Insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Enough. Close all law schools for five years. Give thousands of local attorneys time to make a living. Maybe that can cut frivolous litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Name one\u00a0place where communism and socialism work. People are not trying to get into Cuba, Russia, Venezuela. Never has worked. Just fluffy language.<\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone results in fetal death 100% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>How many OSHA inspectors were fired by Trump? Factory explosion every week. Winning.<\/p>\n<p>Want to join the conversation?<\/p>\n<p>Submit a Rant, which are anonymous and 25 words or less, using this form, email your Rant to rant@timesfreepress.com, or send to Rant c\/o Times Free Press, 400 E. 11th. St., Chattanooga TN 37403. Include your phone number and name; names will not appear in print or online.<\/p>\n<p>Or submit a letter to the editor, which are 200 words or less, use this form, email your letter to letters@timesfreepress.com or send to Letters c\/o Times Free Press, 400 E. 11th. St., Chattanooga TN 37403. Letters must be signed with name, address and telephone number; only your name and general location will appear when published. Letters containing discriminatory language or generated by an AI tool may not be chosen.<\/p>\n<p>All letters and rants are subject to review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All you people moving to Tennessee from California, we don&#8217;t want your California ways and thinking. 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